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Postby GDII » Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:17 pm

Mr Ree wrote:You can see the blue bulbs struggle to light the redline section of the tacho in this shot.


The AC buttons are far more blue in the flesh



A bit blurry but shows the difference between the T10 wedge blue, and the blue of the soldered in AC buttons



I was going for red but then the redline and other red parts would just blend and I don't want that. I will try find some decent 5W wedge bulbs.
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Postby Mr Ree » Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:09 pm

Snaps recently did his in red, I cant recall how much it blended with the redline section but it looked quite nice from memory.
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Postby GDII » Thu Jul 21, 2011 6:07 pm

Mr Ree wrote:Snaps recently did his in red, I cant recall how much it blended with the redline section but it looked quite nice from memory.


Blue looks cool and so does red but I've decide to just go with brighter bulbs for now. I can always change it later as doing the gauges on my MR2 takes about half an hour.

I do like how you have done blue on your AC and heater buttons. I haven't looked into what's required to change thoughs lights but I will google it. Need new buttons as the black has worn off and it is now showing ugly cracked chrome.
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Postby KIPH8N » Thu Jul 21, 2011 6:39 pm

I need some blue ones for my ae101 levin. Can someone find me some? How many are needed including the a/c lights?
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Postby Snaps » Thu Jul 21, 2011 6:54 pm

....Bout time I posted that new pic up that I took with the actual camera rather than my phone about two weeks ago....

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No photoshopping or anything to this one. :)
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Postby GDII » Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:02 pm

This is what it looks like now. You can see the right side is brighter because of the 5W bulb. It looks abit fuzzy but I must have moved the camera when taking the shot.

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